Body Found in Wyoming Park ‘Consistent With the Description' of Gabby Petito - FBI confirmed - Brian Laundrie still missing, FBI searched his home

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Yes, it cost $1.5 million in tax dollars to find Laundrie. However, they solved nine (possibly more) missing person cases, in addition to finding Laundrie's remains. I think $150k per missing body found is worth it to give their friends and family closure.
The other side of that coin is... How little time and effort LE must spend looking for missing people (whose cases don't go national) if in just two months they found 9 bodies. Some of those people weren't even missing for long.
 
We hadn't signed it yet; didn't know either that the realtor had received those bids; we weren't given any opportunity to respond, because the owners promptly accepted the higher offers.

The last one was even more fucked up; that house had been listed for over a year, and reduced a few times. The people who sniped us made an offer 20% over the original asking; the owners then pulled the listing/fired the realtor and sold it directly.

This is a small, rural community; it didn't take long to figure out who the buyers were, where they came from, and how much they paid.

Its about the same in my neck of the woods. Wife and I were considering purchasing a new home further out in the countryside earlier this year, but pulled back on that prospect when housing prices started going up 20-30% over what they'd been just two and a half years ago. I have a friend who purchased a house for $175,000 or so that would have been less than $130,000 just three years ago; it isn't even in that great of a neighborhood. A lot of what we're hearing from real estate agents is these homes are being purchased out by semi-rich boomers from out of state, or in the yuppie part of the state, to use as rental income. They let a rental management agency have 20% of the profit, snag the house with a $500-750 a month mortgage if they don't purchase it outright, and then just coast off the rental income. That and these giga-sized rental agencies snagging homes up with cash and turning them into rental units is also endemic.

You'll own nothing and be happy, I guess.

I have a friend who purchased a school bus, gutted the thing, and now works as a programmer working remotely. Stays a couple of weeks in a free state or national park, then pulls stakes and moves on to another one. I don't think that sort of life is for everyone, but it seems to make him and his wife happy, so more power to them.

I had a couple of weeks off work a few weeks ago and decided to go camping for a week or so off one of my bikes. If I camp in bear country, and I can't be bothered carrying a bear vault, I'll usually stay at a campground so I can use their lockers to stow my stuff in. This was in the middle of the week, during non-peak season, and I saw dozens of vans, RVs and even a handful of buses that were very obviously kitted out for long-term travel and accommodation. I think the 'van life' has transcended beyond yuppies making YouTube videos from their $85,000 Mercedes vans and to everyday people just trying to get by or just simply revolting against the current housing market.
 
Yes, it cost $1.5 million in tax dollars to find Laundrie. However, they solved nine (possibly more) missing person cases, in addition to finding Laundrie's remains. I think $150k per missing body found is worth it to give their friends and family closure.
Just the entertainment value alone was worth $1.5 million. There have been movies made for ten times that that entertained fewer people.
 
Just the entertainment value alone was worth $1.5 million. There have been movies made for ten times that that entertained fewer people.
Yes, and I think the movie to come out of this will be very good if done properly. Imagine the ending.... Brian's parents driving him off to their last trip before he offs himself. The tension. Fuck. I can't wait.
 
>devoured by wild pigs
lmao what an end. i'm imagining it as a bright moonlight night. he is sweating and delirious as a flock of pigs chase him down like velociraptor.
 
That lady from Pennsylvania who flew all the way down there just to screech at the house and stake signs to the yard...she is a national treasure.
 
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There's pretty much jack shit happening on this stuff now, so we're closing up this thread for the time being. If there are any notable developments in the mean time you guys can PM either @CatParty or me and we'll reopen if its pertinent.
 

Autopsy shows Brian Laundrie died by suicide, attorney says​


CNN)Brian Laundrie died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head, an attorney for the Laundrie family told CNN Tuesday.
"Chris and Roberta Laundrie have been informed that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was suicide," said attorney Steven Bertolino.
CNN has reached out to authorities for further comment, and has followed up with Bertolino regarding how Laundrie came to be in possession of a gun.
Laundrie's remains were found in a Florida nature reserve last month after a weekslong manhunt. He disappeared just days after his fiancée Gabby Petito was reported missing.
With Brian Laundrie dead, here's where else authorities could look for answers on what happened to Gabby Petito
With Brian Laundrie dead, here's where else authorities could look for answers on what happened to Gabby Petito
The couple had been traveling across the country over the summer in a converted van and documenting their travels on social media. The case gained national attention as authorities searched for both.
Laundrie returned to his parents' house in Florida on September 1 without Petito. As police were trying to question the family about Petito's whereabouts, Laundrie went missing on September 13 or 14 after leaving home with a backpack, according to his parents.
Petito's remains were found in Wyoming on September 19. Her death was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation.
Petito's family says they are "aware of the circumstances" regarding Laundrie. But they are not making an official comment at the request of the US Attorney's Office and the Teton County Prosecutor's Office in Wyoming, according to a statement from the family.
The family was asked not to make any comments while the investigation into her death is ongoing, the statement said.
A Florida medical examiner's office confirmed Tuesday Laundrie had died of suicide by a gunshot wound to the head.
The office won't make the autopsy report public "until the law enforcement investigation is complete," the office said in a release.
A timeline of the Petito case
What led to Petito's death remains a mystery. The FBI had described Laundrie as a "person of interest" in her murder, but he was not charged. He had, though, been indicted for allegedly using two accounts that belonged to someone else in the days after she died.
Laundrie's remains were found October 20 in an area of Carlton Reserve that had been underwater during previous searches of the 25,000-acre nature reserve in North Port.
Constant updates have left authorities and the public confused about Laundrie's disappearance. Here's what we know
Constant updates have left authorities and the public confused about Laundrie's disappearance. Here's what we know
Laundrie's father, who was searching with authorities the day his son's remains were found, discovered a notebook near where Laundrie's body was found. Experts said at the time the notebook could be key in providing answers.
The notebook was wet at the time, and officials haven't yet said whether they have gained any information from it.
Bertolini said in October Laundrie's parents had discussed "several times" the possibility their son had died by suicide.

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Will leave the thread reopened for a day or two so you guys can sperg about the confirmation of suicide if you want.
 
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It took the Feds long enough to come out with this clear fact. But no word on his motive or explanation of his actions? I doubt he simply said "I killed Petito" and nothing else.

Someone (a news agency would probably be willing to do this for the clicks) may have to submit a FOIA request to get his diary.

I also bet that either or both his parents and/or Gabby's parents know exactly what was written. We might get lucky if either of those sets tell us what set him off.
 
Gabby Petito's family files a $50 million lawsuit against Utah police for wrongful death.

NBC Article (Archive)

The family of Gabby Petito on Monday announced a wrongful death lawsuit against police in Moab, Utah, accusing the department of failing to properly investigate her domestic violence case and protect her.

The lawsuit, which seeks $50 million in damages, comes around the anniversary of Petito’s death.

Petito was 22 when she was reported missing in September 2021. She was on a monthslong cross-country trip living in a van with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie.

Petito’s body was found in Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming on Sept. 19, 2021. It was determined she had been dead for at least three weeks, and her death was ruled a homicide by “manual strangulation.” Laundrie, who was named a person of interest in the case, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Florida’s Carlton Reserve in October 2021.

Laundrie admitted to killing Petito in writings that were found after his death, officials have said.

The notice of intent filing, which is required before suing government entities, was filed against the Moab City Police Department, its then-Chief Bret Edge, ex-Assistant Chief Braydon Palmer, and Officers Eric Pratt and Daniel Robbins.

The Moab City Police Department did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment. A representative for the city of Moab said it does not comment on pending litigation.

The suit will center on a police encounter with Petito and Laundrie on Aug. 12, 2021, during their trip in Utah, shortly before her death.

That interaction made headlines following Petito's disappearance, with body camera footage released showing Petito visibly distraught. According to the police report, Petito told officers she had slapped Laundrie and hit him first and that he had grabbed her face.

But ultimately, both Petito and Laundrie said that they did not want to press charges and that they loved each other.

An independent review, completed in January this year, found that the officers made several mistakes in handling that case —misclassifying it as more of a mental/emotional health “break” rather than domestic violence, and lacking details in their reports.

Their reports lacked details or documentation of any injury Petito suffered — and no one appeared to ask Laundrie about a scratch on Petito’s cheek, the independent review found.

In the new filing, lawyers for the Petito family argue that had police officers involved in that incident had proper training — teaching them to conduct a thorough lethality assessment and recognize signs of abuse — they’d know “Gabby was a victim of intimate partner violence” and needed “immediate protection.”

In that incident, Laundrie and Petito were stopped in their van by officers who saw the vehicle speeding, crossing the double yellow line and hitting a curb near Arches National Park. A witness had called police, reporting they saw Laundrie “slapping” Petito.

Officers Pratt and Robbins interviewed Petito and Laundrie separately.

Robbins said he observed cuts on Petito's cheek and arm in his report, but court documents said that when she was asked about her fight with Laundrie, she “displayed the classic hallmarks of an abused partner” in trying to take the blame, saying she hit him first and didn’t want to be separated from him.

Lawyers for the Petito family said a new photo, that hasn’t been released to the public yet, shows a close-up of Petito's face “where blood is smeared on her cheek and left eye.”

“The photo shows that Gabby’s face was grabbed across her nose and mouth, potentially restricting her airway,” the filing said.
 
There are enough human trash piles where both parties are in a shitty situation but refuse help, and the police, not wanting to get sued or deal with a situation that benefits nobody, simply shrug and walk off.

Cops can be dicks or criminally incompetent, but they did nothing wrong in this case.
 
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